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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

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713 points freedomben | 10 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.779s | source | bottom
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bji9jhff ◴[18 Jul 25 17:13 UTC] No.44607275[source]▶
It is sad that in 2025 this needs to be repeated: fiction is not real.

This statement imply that:

* Simulated violence is not violence.

* Simulated sex is not sex.

* Simulated sorcery is not sorcery

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nkrisc ◴[18 Jul 25 23:06 UTC] No.44610770[source]▶
And yet it is possible to make simulations extreme enough I would not opposed to banning them. There are some things that should not be normalized in society.

It shouldn’t be payment processors doing it unilaterally, I’ll grant that. But I’m not (and I’m sure a great many more of a silent majority) wholly opposed to the outcome.

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1. cool_dude85 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:17 UTC] No.44611304[source]▶
For the people who disagree: would you really be interested in seeing Child Grooming Simulator 25 on steam? I think we can almost all reasonably agree that at least this sort of content should not be sold on there.
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2. krustyburger ◴[19 Jul 25 00:24 UTC] No.44611339[source]▶
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
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3. cool_dude85 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:31 UTC] No.44611399[source]▶
When we start saying "no content restrictions besides illegal stuff", your hyperbolic question becomes legitimate in a way that it's not when we're talking about Doom.
4. Shekelphile ◴[19 Jul 25 02:19 UTC] No.44611979[source]▶
there are already hundreds, if not thousands of anime lolicon porn games on steam.

the people making a stink about this know this but are pretending that they don't because it would overtly out them as pedophiles.

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5. uamgeoalsk ◴[19 Jul 25 02:21 UTC] No.44611991[source]▶
I don't have to be "interested" in seeing something on steam to disagree with nkrisc. I don't care about 99.9%+ of the games on steam, that doesn't mean I want them gone.
6. Dracophoenix ◴[19 Jul 25 03:34 UTC] No.44612364[source]▶
Correction: Won't somebody please think of the pixels?
7. Thorrez ◴[19 Jul 25 07:15 UTC] No.44613284[source]▶
Are you saying the people who are petitioning Steam to remove porn games are playing the porn games themselves and simultaneously pretending porn games don't exist on Steam?

That doesn't make sense.

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8. baobabKoodaa ◴[19 Jul 25 07:25 UTC] No.44613323[source]▶
Nothing you said here is true.
9. mango7283 ◴[19 Jul 25 13:00 UTC] No.44615138{3}[source]▶
It's possible he means people saying steam should not delist anything due to pressure from activists are tacitly condoning sketchy lolicon games.
10. Levitz ◴[19 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44616136[source]▶
>would you really be interested in seeing Child Grooming Simulator 25 on steam?

If we are going down this path there's a lot of literature popular with women about to be banned